The 10 Key Turning Points in the History of Social Media
1999: LiveJournal beats Blogger to market
Online diary keeping began in earnest with the debut of LiveJournal, the first of many sites to popularize blogging. LiveJournal preceded by just a few months Pyra Labs' Blogger software, later acquired by Google, which remains one of the dominant blog-hosting platforms. LiveJournal failed to keep up with Blogger and in 2009 most of its U.S. staff were laid off and remaining operations were moved to Russia.
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